The world premiere of The Two Popes, a film directed by Fernando Meirelles and written by Anthony McCarten, took place at the Telluride Film Festival last week. It stars Sir Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict XVI and Jonathan Pryce as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the man who would become Pope Francis.
The trailer has dropped, too, ahead of the film’s limited theatrical roll-out in late November (with an eye to Oscars), and its wider release on Netflix on December 20.
The promo begins with Hopkins’s Benedict at an upright piano in a shadowy study apparently meant to be somewhere inside the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace. He plays perhaps a bar and a half of a brooding melody before interrupting himself, as though he has seized upon a thought. The scene cuts to Benedict leaning in and asking an interlocutor (Pryce’s Cardinal Bergoglio, it turns out): “Do you know the Beatles?”
